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The four basic seasons of the Earth are Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.

They are not experienced the same way in every location, and the seasons are reversed north or south of the equator : when it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa.

The cause of the seasons is the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation (line from one pole to the other) with respect to the plane of its orbit around the Sun. During the course of the year, this changes the length of the day, and the angle of the Sun's rays, for all locations except those in the tropics near the equator.

Other climate terms involving seasons (wet season, dry season, monsoon) are effects of weather patterns, not directly due to the Earth's orbit.

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